Has anyone got the Xenon-1 demo version? It was sold on Ebay long ago, and I was told by the buyer that it was a demo of the game simply playing in loop, but he re-sold it by then.
I'd be really curious to see it, it was packaged in the usual Xenon-1 case but IIRC the tape was stamped "DEMO".

I knew the distributor of Oric in Australia back in the day, and these DEMO tapes were distributed for shops to have something running on the Oric hardware - as far as I can remember, they had a mode where they just 'scrolled' through a bunch of screenshots or something, some sort of gimmick that the regular playing game didn't need.

There were a few other DEMO tapes, if I remember correctly, based on my recollection of the Warehouse in Australia (Melbourne) at the time.

robcook wrote:Whoa, I had no idea anything like this existed. I assume this was for use in shops, to show the games working?

That's right. It's thanks to this demo that I got an Oric-1 when I was only 11. I would probably have ended up with a ZX Spectrum if this demo hadn't been running on a TV next to the Computer displays in our local COMET store in Halifax.